Philippines Tests China's Island Claims in Court

10/14/2013 11:25PM

Beijing has said it will ignore proceedings at the United Nations' tribunal, preferring to settle matters bilaterally. The WSJ's Andrew Browne and Enda Curran discuss possible outcomes for the Philippines and China in the South China Sea dispute.

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... the the ... like there is a Boston based lawyer who spent most his career representing smaller countries against bigger ones ... neither is our field off the Philippines against China for Wall Street Journal online and a current Number Jones from our Beijing bureau following ... and you Brenda morning and you can you explain to us with this case the buys ... will be out of the Philippines is challenging the famous or infamous depending on you one of the nine dashed line this of the line that appears on Chinese maps in loops around the entire time the South China Sea China claims the whole city ... everything in sight to see the Philippines ... and the five hole right Schlessel into ... a take on this case is saying that this nine dashed line is incompatible with a UN regime ... that governs ... the oceans the world's oceans ... of course the long running source of tension between the Philippines and China what would you say that runs the six x one Mr. unfair is it ... well some people say this whole thing is that all take that they're dead you know even if the Philippines was to win this case China would simply ignore it ... and then the mass would deepen I mean it's a very deep seated deep rooted historical problem ... was helping run away years ago seven was too complicated to ... to address the wishing to shelve the solvency issues at work on jointly developing resources would crimp the season some people just say ... you know it's gonna make things was however from the Philippines point of view ... they looking at ... a much more aggressive or the stock of China which is the increasingly asserting as claims the beaches right off the Philippine postal from the point of view they tried diplomacy ... other for talking to China about this as well as the busy ok that's it the last ... option available to us is the isthe legal ... under under under under under countries the region supporting the Philippines and taking it off ... well of course is that anybody expected no other country in the region as a Mama said we support what the Philippines is going for other albeit reasons nobody wants to challenge China in this way ... I think probably suffer from a distance there looking at this and some of them most suddenly a supporting the Philippine action ... aam ... but you know the the the point is that things China has has over the past few years been bringing things to ahead ... aam and it doesn't appear that the content of diplomacy ... I'm is working on for a well worth it causes can be an extremely slow process in the meantime I love that there are there are those real business to conduct in the South China Sea the oil that is oil and gas ... and of course this fisheries ... a ban on to what our Mr. on stem cells to tell us what is taking on such a mighty power much on a ... get one load in Opel couple writes has won the best in the business and he's been involved in almost every ... arbitration on that the United Nations Convention on the lore of the three ... auctions this thing started back in nineteen eighty two so ... I he's going he thinks that he's gone a solid case and he is amassing a ... huge amount of evidence ... of which he intends to show II makes the nine dashed line and China's claims ... of maritime claims I attached Iowans within the South China Sea ... incompatible with international also ... you know he he he seems to think that is not a pretty strong case ... ok what a very interesting story